Description: Individualized Society, Paperback by Bauman, Zygmunt, ISBN 074562507X, ISBN-13 9780745625072, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears; but all too often our action fails to address the true causes of our worries. When trying to make sense of our lives, we tend to blame our own failings and weaknesses for our discomforts and defeats. And in doing so, we make things worse rather than better. Reasonable beings that we are, how does this happen and why does it go on happening? These are the questions addressed in this new book by Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and perceptive social thinkers writing today. For Bauman, the task of sociology is not to censor or correct the stories we tell of our lives, but to show that there are more ways in which our life stories can be told. By bringing into view the many complex dependencies invisible from the vantage point of private experience, sociology can help us to link our individual decisions and actions to the deeper causes of our troubles and fears - to the ways we live, to the conditions under which we act, to the socially drawn limits of our imagination and ambition. Sociology can help us to understand the processes that have shaped the society in which we live today, a society in which individualization has become our fate. And sociology can also help us to see that if our individual but shared anxieties are to be effectively tackled, they need to be addressed collectively, true to their social, not individual, nature. The Individualized Society will be of great interest to students of sociology, politics and the social sciences and humanities generally. It will also appeal to a broader range of readers who are interested in the changing nature of our social and political life today.
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Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Individualized Society
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Year: 2001
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Sociology / General, History & Surveys / Modern
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
